Thoughts on social media, business and journalism from Suw and Kevin Charman-Anderson

links for 2009-02-17

Kevin: The co-founders of The Pirate Bay BitTorrent site are trying to crowd-source coverage of their trial using the hashtag spectrial for Tweets and blogposts. Bloggy.se will index all of the coverage.

Kevin: Sarah Hartley observes five barriers to journalists using Twitter. Some journalists don't see the point. They don't think that anyone that they deal with uses it. Succinct and worth a read and a think.

Kevin: Iain Hepburn, and internet journalist and editor, says: "But of all (Twitter)'s current problems – and it has many – the biggest one is the Twitter obsessives preaching at every opportunity about just how fantastic the service really is."

Kevin: Jeff Jarvis outlines several scenarios that he sees as the future of news. Local news organisations won't be about news organisations but about their communities he says. Local news organisations will be smaller. He talked about how the smaller newsrooms will rely on networks. Investigative journalism will continue. It's a good and comprehensive list of some of the new ways that news providers will organise themselves.